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The sentence in the middle of your comment is technically true, but the surrounding joviality of lol and stupid emojis is horrible.
There are literally over a dozen people on Lemmy. There may even be more than twice that. Don't expect a single, cohesive view on anything. It's rare enough for even a single person to have cohesive views. If you expect a single, cohesive view from a group of multiple people, that's about as realistic as expecting your romantic relationships to work like ones in Disney movies. The person calling for the death penalty as a comment on one post is probably not the same one calling for care in handling a homeless man's issues. This is a collection of individuals, not a collective hivemind.
It’s a ten day old account shill account. They speak fluent Youtube comment because that’s where their experience is.
Newbies often need guidance on the norms of the space they have come into. Hopefully, they will learn.
citation needed
Laws don't prevent rape because they're not enforced. As we've seen with the Cornell case.
The laugh emojis are a weird thing to add.
So you admit that they can't be expected to do their jobs? Weird take from someone who supports the police. Maybe if they actually did their jobs they wouldn't be so hated.
Oh, you're here to strawman. No surprise there.
Is that not what they're for? Why would you be against them being used for what they're allegedly for?
If you were smart enough to know how dumb you are you'd be embarrassed.
So you want police to stop brutalizing marginalized communities but also don't want to be randomly assaulted and raped?
Like most things in life, it's a binary choice and you can't possibly have both
You want both? How about neither. Don't worry you still wouldn't have gotten either had you picked just one. Anyways, we've decided to do a bunch of overtime not doing anything beneficial and massively outspent our budget. Anyways you don't really need those libraries, sidewalks, or schools.
It's hard to read sarcasm on the internet, let alone in a thread with an already-established troll on the loose.
Ok fair enough, I thought it was clear but I see your point
Yes?
Also yes?
Why the hell not? Where is that written down?
Sorry I was trying to be sarcastic and the point i was trying to make was essentially the opposite of what I said, which I recognize could be confusing.
Most things are not a binary choice, and if we were going to have real police reform we would need to have difficult conversations about how much policing snd what type is the best to ensure public safety without having the policing itself become a public safety concern. But that reform isn't coming, so we probably don't need to have those conversations
Lol. Who told you that?
I lived in San Diego for a year and loved it. Try living in Oklahoma, then we'll talk.
Is it not in California?
Here in Oklahoma it's overwhelmingly Republican and is 20 times worse to live than any blue area in California.
Are the leftists who think these things in the room with us now?
I believe that you do.
Aren't you American?
How would fucking idiot fix anything?
Weird take from someone who lives here willingly. Says a lot about you.
Expecting cops to do their jobs is hypocrisy?
What is even happening...
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Uhhh surveillance definitely doesn’t prevent a thing
No one here is calling for more surveillance to curb this.